Month: April, 2010

Last weekend my good friend Steve from college got married to a wonderful girl named Karen, and I had the honor of being one of his groomsmen. Lynn and I had a wonderful time dancing the night away and seeing all of techhouse together again for a great wedding. And here are some pictures!

After getting the problem structure worked out, I started working on Problem 2, applying a move to a state and getting a new state. This required a couple of helper functions that came over from the lisp code. These two small functions take two track listings and perform the appropriate move. They return a pair [...]

I wanted to start on the second problem in the train yard assignment in Erlang. But I realized that my data structure for a yard was pretty cumbersome. I wanted to mess with the Record structure system, so I created a header file with the record and test data definitions. The Record system is definitely [...]

Open Sarcasm Manifesto ¡ Free Sarcasm Punctuation ¡ Open-Source Punctuation for Sarcasm ¡ Temherte Slaqî. I have long felt the need for a sarcasm indicator of some kind for text communication. Today I discovered that other people have not only suffered this problem, but have also researched and discovered a solution. Apparently there is historical [...]

After reading some more documentation and tinkering, I’ve updated the three practice functions I wrote in Erlang a little while ago. Here they are: In addition, I wrote a simple unit test method that calls each method with a bunch of different inputs and tries to match the output with an expected true or false. [...]

Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets – CBS Evening News – CBS News. Here’s a quick note of warning. If you have to throw out a copier that has any kind of memory on it, and most modern ones do, find and destroy the hard drive. Or take it to a professional.

Senators Introduce Bill in Response to EFF’s Call for New Protections Against Secret Video Surveillance | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Wow, that was fast: little more than two weeks after EFF testified to a Senate subcommittee that federal electronic privacy law needs to be updated to protect against secret video surveillance just like it regulates electronic [...]

Because I’m a bit of a geek and technology fan, I have slightly more than a passing interest in technology-related news and lawmaking. Particularly in the areas of intellectual property rights, security, privacy and net neutrality. A few days ago the United Kingdom passed a dangerously-draconian and ludicrous digital rights bill that makes our lawmakers [...]

From the internet comes this amazing video of 8-bit video games invading New York: “PIXELS”, by Patrick Jean. And also check out this music video version with a very different feel: And for something truly bizarre, check out this YouTube channel of commentated Starcraft 2 matches in HD. Yes, people are so dedicated to this [...]